Documentary PoetryHeimrad Bcker Austrian poet and photographer Heimrad Bcker's essays, collected here along with a selection of his photographs and two of his documentary poems, explore the poetic, philosophical, and political stakes of his investigation into the memory of the Holocaust. A prominent member of the Austrian avant garde, Heimrad Bcker (1925 2003) devoted decades to the development of a singular documentary style. For most of his adult life, Bcker directed

each line an essential observation of a moment

leidde tot een gevoel van ontheemding dat Yu Kwang-chung nooit meer heeft verlaten

observational mode and crystallizes swiftly into an engrossing lattice of voice and affect

Twenty-Four Hours is an unforgettable burst of lyricism – melancholic yet playful

Across different wartimes

I then regarded it

Among many others

contains work in Dutch and English by Alara Adilow

(Hint: het kapitalisme

die werd bekroond met de eerste Jo Peters Poëzieprijs

she left behind a body of work which had already

from an acclaimed Italian poet